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• Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
  -- Henry Van Dyke...
• Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
  -- Henry Van Dyke...
• She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid
  By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows....
• The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world
  oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!...
• Since when was genius found respectable? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Who so loves believes the impossible. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despai
  And they heard the words it said,-- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!...
• That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,-- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet lxxiii...